The Manfred and Wilhelm Beutel Photo Collection

Jan 251998
 

Daniel García Andújar: The Manfred and Wilhelm Beutel Photo Collection, 1998

Daniel García Andújar: The Manfred and Wilhelm Beutel Photo Collection, 1998
CD-ROM, 50 framed digital prints
Coproduction:
Reservate der Sehnsucht, Dortmunder U, 1998

In the course of the “” exhibition in the former Union brewery, Daniel García Andùjar presented a photograph collection he discovered. Compiled by the former brewery workers Wilhelm and Manfred Beutel, the collection documents episodes in the history of which scarcely figure in the city’s contemporary public awareness: the years during the Third Reich, and the almost total destruction of the inner city during World War II.

Andújar’s main contribution to this presentation was a specially developed geographical information system (GIS) enabling the exact time of shooting, as well as the location of the photographer, to be determined for each picture. Continue reading »

IMG_7127.JPG imgp4868.jpg 04.jpg P1010327.JPG P1010135.JPG imgp4842.jpg imgp4823.jpg P1010317.JPG IMG_7099.JPG 1-IRA_AD_8470_laborb.jpg

Short Cuts ? Anschlüsse an den Körper

Nov 251997
 

 

 

Frieze Issue 37 November-December 1997

, Dortmund, Germany

DASA, or the Deutsche Arbeitsschutzausstellung (The German Health and Safety at Work Exhibition) to give it its full title, is a museum in which you can put on a pair of hygienically padded headphones and take a guided tour of the history of work. Behind this is the serious point that working people – whether typing at computers or tapping blast furnaces – are exposed to danger. Ear muffs, goggles and back exercises were all invented to protect the body during the production process. If the mind responsible for that body is to understand how vulnerable it is and how it works, clear images are needed. ‘ – Anschlüsse an den Körper. Ein Cross-Over durch Kunst, Wissenschaft und Körperbilder’ (: connections to the body. A criss-cross tour of art, science and images of the body) is the wordy title of an exhibition that provides just that. The 17 artists involved use photography, video, installation and interactive computers. Curators (art historian) and (artist) state that in organising the show they were interested in ‘surfaces’ and not in ‘physical feelings’. Continue reading »

P1010116.JPG Secret IMG_7118.JPG IMG_6928.JPG 15-Universidad.jpg P1010125.JPG 02.jpg Secret P1010300.JPG P1010135.JPG

Short Cuts ? Anschlüsse an den Körper

Nov 221997
 

Martin Pesch

Frieze Issue 37 November-December 1997

, Dortmund, Germany

DASA, or the Deutsche Arbeitsschutzausstellung (The German Health and Safety at Work Exhibition) to give it its full title, is a museum in which you can put on a pair of hygienically padded headphones and take a guided tour of the history of work. Behind this is the serious point that working people – whether typing at computers or tapping blast furnaces – are exposed to danger. Ear muffs, goggles and back exercises were all invented to protect the body during the production process. If the mind responsible for that body is to understand how vulnerable it is and how it works, clear images are needed. ‘ – Anschlüsse an den Körper. Ein Cross-Over durch Kunst, Wissenschaft und Körperbilder’ (: connections to the body. A criss-cross tour of art, science and images of the body) is the wordy title of an exhibition that provides just that. The 17 artists involved use photography, video, installation and interactive computers. Curators (art historian) and (artist) state that in organising the show they were interested in ‘surfaces’ and not in ‘physical feelings’. Continue reading »

P1010269.JPG 1-IRA_AD_8470_laborb.jpg P1010310.JPG P1010129.JPG P1010134.JPG P1010209.JPG P1010106.JPG P1010327.JPG imgp4842.jpg P1010205.JPG

Research department

Feb 021997
 

Presented as large-format wallpaper installation » The of devotes itself to statistically recording and presenting core areas of contemporary life. In regard to levels of technology ownership in the USA, the department tells us that 77.3 % of the population possesses a microwave, but only (only?) 55 % a supermarket price scanner. Another statistic reveals that Washington and California are the federal states in which UFOs are most frequently spotted (New York trails far behind at the other end of the scale). We are also given percentages for the distribution of religions over the continents, beverage consumption in selected countries, the frequency with which types of passwords are cracked, the primary online activities of women, and the distribution of employment in the USA (with data supplied by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U. S. Department of Labor). In the exhibition the statistics are presented as large-format printouts covering the walls of the room dedicated to irational’s Collecting data all over the net project. The collection of all kinds of data (via surveys, for instance, or loyalty cards) combined with the personalization facilitated by increasing linkage with databases has now become a powerful tool for consumer . With its own requests for sensitive or wholly irrelevant information, irational began from an early date to confront the increasingly apparent mania for collecting data. (Inke Arns)

P1010327.JPG Secret 04.jpg 15-Universidad.jpg P1010124.JPG P1010310.JPG P1010135.JPG Secret P1010312.JPG IMG_6928.JPG

Preliminary Basic Application

Feb 021997
 

Presented as online website Daniel G. Andújar’s company (TTTP) invites interested parties to submit an application to the grants programme of the fictitious Foundation. A click on the hyperlink takes potential applications to the , a serious-looking questionnaire which reveals the subtle mechanisms used to collect marketing-relevant data. A notice advises that a fee is payable — by credit card only — prior to submitting an application, and requests for sensitive information are underscored by ironic notices flickering across the screen: »We would appreciate! Strictly confidential!« The form asks for the applicant’s social insurance number and credit card details as well as financially useful data (age group, gender, marital status, occupation), and rounds off the profile by asking for details of religion and race. (Darija Simunovic)

P1010193.JPG P1010125.JPG 06.jpg P1010321.JPG P1010324.JPG P1010327.JPG P1010207.JPG Secret P1010129.JPG Secret

Awards and Acknowledgements

Feb 021997
 

A long list of awards conceivably and inconceivably bestowed on the website which, as its makers would have us believe, is »one of the most popular art sites on the internet «. Framed in silver like a collection of especially valuable postage stamps, the some 30 distinctions presented in the original thumbnail format include »Browser Watch — Net Fame!«, »An Internet cool site of the day«, »Magellan Star Site«, »Prescribed by Dr. Webster’s Web Site of the Day«, »Art Dirt« — »Your Webscout Way Cool Site«, and »Orchid Award for Page Excellence«. (Inke Arns)

P1010304.JPG P1010164.JPG P1010310.JPG IMG_6928.JPG P1010135.JPG P1010192.JPG P1010323.JPG P1010208.JPG P1010207.JPG 04.jpg

The Body Research Machine

Jan 251997
 

Daniel García Andújar: The Body Research Machine, 1997 (Screenshot)

Daniel García Andújar: , 1997,
Multimedia-Projekt (Screenshot)

Installation

Coproduction:
Courtesy:
Since 2000, a modified version has been part of the permanent collection of the Deutschen Arbeitsschutzausstellung,
Shortcuts. Anschlüsse an den Körper, 1997

“‘THE BODY RESEARCH MACHINE©’ uses innovative technologies based on advanced biometrics in order to record complex data related to the human body. The machine transmits through the body ultrasound waves which are then split up into phase data. While doing so, the machine scans every section of the body for interesting information, transferring all input signals to a special computer database.
Specially developed by TECHNOLOGIES TO THE PEOPLE©, the database system imitates the structure of various atom models and is able to reconstruct, atom for atom, individual amino-acid structures. These data and other information are stored in our central database. The collected data can ultimately be compared with the DNA strings saved in a GenBank. Continue reading »

P1010103.JPG 15-Universidad.jpg P1010302.JPG main-1.jpeg Secret IMG_6928.JPG imgp4854.jpg P1010297.JPG P1010124.JPG P1010195.JPG

Awards and Acknowledgements

Jan 231997
 

A long list of awards conceivably and inconceivably bestowed on the website which, as its makers would have us believe, is »one of the most popular art sites on the internet «. Framed in silver like a collection of especially valuable postage stamps, the some 30 distinctions presented in the original thumbnail format include »Browser Watch — Net Fame!«, »An Internet cool site of the day«, »Magellan Star Site«, »Prescribed by Dr. Webster’s Web Site of the Day«, »Art Dirt« — »Your Webscout Way Cool Site«, and »Orchid Award for Page Excellence«. (Inke Arns)

P1010106.JPG P1010130.JPG imgp4823.jpg Secret P1010208.JPG P1010114.JPG 4.jpg P1010193.JPG P1010300.JPG IMG_6923.JPG

Technologies To The People

Sep 251996
 

Technologies To The People

by ,
«» In 1996, Daniel García Andújar founded the concern «,» which brought the «» on the market the same year: a combination system made up of reading device, special credit card, and public online access, which allows the homeless and other fringe groups to enter the world of plastic money and E-commerce. The trademark-protected «,» whose design announced the i-Mac Generation in 1996, is perfectly marketed with a corporate identity and comprehensive advertising campaign—flyers, posters, and merchandising materials. Nothing is missing except the corresponding product. Andújar is not concerned with virtual capital for all, but more so with naming the structures of exclusion so gladly denied during the course of the omnipresent cyber-euphoria.[...] Continue reading »

main-1.jpeg P1010122.JPG Secret main.jpeg P1010125.JPG P1010223.JPG P1010326.JPG P1010317.JPG P1010205.JPG P1010304.JPG

Street Access Machine®

Feb 021996
 

isam press

Presented with original posters » Products offered by (TTTP), the company founded by Daniel G. Andújar, range from the ® over the Recovery Card® and Internet ® to the Personal Folkcomputer®. All of these (fictitious) products and technologies aim to allow the socially underprivileged to participate in the emergent . While the Internet Street Access Machine® promises »access for all«, the Street Access Machine® and Recovery Card® enables beggars to accept payment by credit card. The project unmasks the belief, propagated by those who manufacture the associated products (and by »Californian ideology«*), that a democratizing potential is inherent to technology. The world shown by TTTP on its posters and leaflets is neither more just thanks to the deployment of these new technologies, nor is it accessible to all — despite the claims made by providers of telecommunications applications. Even if they use the latest info-society tools, beggars remain beggars, the socially marginalized remain socially marginalized. Technologies tend to reinforce, rather than alter, social structures. When the project was presented in Hamburg in 1996, a (bona fide) mail was received from Apple, announcing the company’s interest in the (fictitious) product range of TTTP.** (Inke Arns)

P1010133.JPG P1010116.JPG 08.jpg P1010135.JPG P1010172.JPG P1010311.JPG P1010129.JPG P1010301.JPG Secret Secret
Page 15 of 15 1 2 … 13 14 15